Carriage-curtain attachment



NOMOde1 D. ARGERBRIGHT..

CARRIAGE CURTAIN ATTACHMENT.

Patented Mar. 10,1891.

Mdww/ NTTn STATES CARRIAGE-CURTAIN ATTACHMENT.`

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,106, dated 'March10, 1891.

Application filed May l, 1890. Serial No. 350,194. (No model.) A

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL ARGERBRIGHT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Troy, in the county of Miami and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-O urtainAttachments and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to carriage-curtains, and particularly to -theclass of curtain attachments, the same being an improvement on `mypatent, No. 416,540, dated December 3, 1889.

The objectof the invention is to provide a sunshade or curtain which canbe readily adjusted to any size of window withoutremoving any of theparts of said curtain.

A further object of the invention is to provide a carriage-curtain withsuch a device for its attachment to a carriage which will not deface theposts and remove the paint or polish thereof by constant wear.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, Figure lis a side elevation of a curtain secured to the posts of acarriage-window by my improved device. Fig. 2 is a modification of myattachment, showing the eyes attached to a separate piece of webbing.Fig. 3 is a detached view of my eyes. Fig. 4 is a modification of myeyes.

Like letters of reference denote like parts throughout the igures.

To the curtain or shade A is stitched or otherwise attached an elasticweb B, with its ends O and D left free. To these ends O and D aresecured metal eyes E, preferably triangular in shape; but they may bemade circular or of the form shown in Fig. 4. The free ends O and D arepassed through the eyes and lapped over and stitched to the Webbing B,thus making the eye secure in its place, as clearly 4shown in Fig. l ofthe drawings.

A series of hooks F are secured along the inner face of web B, so thatthe curtain may be attached to anysized window-that is, if the window benarrow the eyes E will bc placed in the hooks nearest the middle of theweb B, and ifa wide windowin the hooks nearest the far ends.

The free ends O and D are of sufficient length, after the eyes E havebeen attached, to extend entirely around the poles of a carriage-window.By this arrangement the free ends only (which vare usually made of silk)come in Contact with the polished carriagework, and the wear on suchwork by having metal rings or hooks come in contact with the Wood-workis entirely obviated. After the eyes E have been passed around theWindowpoles they are hooked iu any of the hooks according to the size ofthe carriage- Window. The free ends may be separate from and ofdifferent material than the Web B, and I prefer to have the free ends ofstronger elastic material and stitched onto the web B at the edge of thecurtain, thus providing free ends for the eyesE of greater durabilitythan the elastic webbing B.

I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to any particularelastic material, nor to the number of hooks employed, but reserve tomyself the right to use any material and any number of hooks withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A carriage-curtain having a strip of elastic webbing secured thereto,and a series of hooks attached to said elastic webbing, in combinationwith the free ends formed of different elastic material adapted to besecured to the said strip, and a pair of eyes one of which is secured toeither of the said free ends, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. The combination, with the curtain and its elastic webbing, and thehooks F, of the free end pieces C and D, and the eyes E, secured to thesaid free end pieces, which are secured to the said elastic webbing,substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL ARGERBRIGHT. iVitnesses:

PHIL J. GATES, A. F. BRooMHALL.

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